My Garden in Spring 



Spring since that resurrection it has been more beautiful 

 than in the last, and it contrasts well with a neighbouring 

 bush of golden-leaved Bramble trained over poles, which 

 is one of the most brilliant of yellow things in its dress of 

 young leaves. The double-flowered Apple, Pyrus coro- 

 naria fl. pi., grows on the right hand of the Solanum and 

 is now in flower. Its soft, shell-pink flowers are the 

 largest of the Apple family, and charming next the lilac 

 of the Tree Potato. Arenaria montana is climbing into 

 Vitis armata on one of the pergola poles, and has got up 

 for over a foot, and is a wonderful sight, packed so full of 

 its large, white flowers that no leaves are visible. Various 

 Violets and Epimediums line this shady Vine Pergola and 

 appear in the cracks between the stones and make it look 

 a century old instead of its actual five years. A pretty 

 corner of the sundial opening has a carpet of the grey, 

 finely-cut leaves of a good form of Geranium tuberosum, 

 and over this a cloud of its soft, lilac-pink blossoms on tall 

 and slender stems. Some clumps of mauve and pink 

 Darwin Tulips are next it and among it, and behind a 

 bush of Ribes cruenta is covered with its curious half-and- 

 half dark crimson, and pure white flowers. Euphorbia 

 dulcis fol. var. rises out of an edging of pink and lavender 

 dwarf Phloxes, and is a perfect-shaped round bush of 

 green and white leaves crowned with the mass of cream 

 and ivory bracts of its flower-heads. A very beautiful 

 plant, and far too seldom seen, though it needs a little 

 looking after; the plain green shoots that appear among 

 the variegated ones must be removed, and cuttings should 

 be struck every two or three years for renewal, as old 

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